Israel F. Fischer

Israel F. Fischer

Israel Frederick Fischer (born August 17, 1858 in New York City , † March 16, 1940 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1895 and 1899 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Israel Frederick Fischer was born and raised in New York City about three years before the outbreak of the Civil War . During this time he attended public schools and the Cooper Institute . He then worked as a clerk in a law firm, where he dealt with legal processes ( reading law ). He then studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and then began practicing in New York City. In September 1887 he moved to the still independent city of Brooklyn . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . Between 1888 and 1890 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican State Committees .

In the congressional election of 1894 , Fischer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded William J. Coombs on March 4, 1895 . He was re-elected once. In 1898 he suffered a defeat when he ran for re-election and left the congress after March 3, 1899 .

On May 2, 1899, President William McKinley appointed him to the Board of General Appraisers . President Calvin Coolidge appointed him Chief Justice of that court on April 16, 1927 , a position he held until his resignation on March 31, 1932. In 1903 Fischer took part as a delegate at the International Customs Congress in New York City. He died there on March 16, 1940 and was then buried in Maimonides Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Web links

• Israel F. Fischer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Israel F. Fischer in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Israel F. Fischer on the Federal Judicial Center website